Haywire was in front of my cell peering in, I slowly got up from my bunk and leaned against the wall. Trying to ignore him, I had the sneaky suspicion that he knew more then he let on.

"Open on 40" The C.O had to pull Haywire away from his staring and shoved him into his cell. "Close on 40"

I put my arms through the bars and looked around. Abruzzi nodded at me from above in his cell, and then started talking to his cellie. I could see Westmorland sitting with his cat and it made me smile. I should ask how he could it in here.

I saw C.O Mac tap on the bars of Scofield's cell.

"Candy time Haywire" I saw a nurse hand over a cup full of pills.

Mac smiled at me, and then said something to Haywire. They then walked away, and I could hear the sound of retching coming from next door. I furrowed my eyebrows, was Haywire not taking his pills?

It was in the yard when I noticed Haywire following me around, I pretended not to notice. I seriously had a problem with him.

I waited until Scofield left and then I walked up to Abruzzi and sat next to him on the bleachers.

"You know you said you had my back?" I asked him, he raised an eyebrow at me.

"Yeah" He said.

"Well, I have a little bit of a problem. I seem to have a puppy dog that's insisting on following me around" I motioned over to Haywire, who was once again scribbling in his notebook.

"Haywire" Abruzzi laughed. "What did you do to get him interested in what you got going on"

"Hey, I didn't do anything. The guy's a whack job, just started staring at me, creeps me out" As if to prove my point, Haywire starting staring at me again, and then frantically scribbled in his book.

"I see what you mean, I'll try and do something about it" I smiled at him relieved.

It was good to have someone who had connections as a friend.

Visitation came round quickly and I was once again whisked off to the showers.

After I was dressed, I was led to the Wardens office. I fidgeted in my chair wondering what I had done wrong.

"Relax your not in trouble" He told me. "I just wanted to ask you, how you were settling in. I would have asked sooner, but as you can probably tell I'm a very busy man"

"I'm okay, you know. Settling in as good as I can" I didn't tell him about my Haywire situation.

"You know you can tell me anything, and I'll try my best to help you" I nodded my head. No way was I a rat, and I never would be.

I saw Abruzzi walking with Scofield in the yard. I assumed they were talking about Haywire by the way they kept glancing at him, but then the looked at me. I looked away quickly pretending that I hadn't been looking at them.

I walked over to the fence and as I usually did, leant against it. I must of zoned out because when I came back Haywire was in front of me.

"Hi there" He smiled at me, I could practically see the insanity in his eyes.

"Hey" I said back nervously.

"I know what you are" He giggled. He really needs to get back to the whack shack.

"Yeah an inmate" I walked away, but I could hear what he said behind me.

"A girl" He said in a sing-song voice. I stopped in my tracks, I could see Abruzzi and Scofield looking at us. I didn't turn, and carried on walking.

As we were walking out in to the yard again, I saw Haywire sketching, looking at Scofield, and then start sketching again.

I sat at a table by myself for a couple of minutes before Scofield sat down opposite me.

"Yeah?" I asked, his eyes seem to glance over my face. He didn't say anything and I was about to get up until what he said froze me.

"So Haywire told me something" I held my breath and looked down.

"You shouldn't believe what he says, he's nuts" I try to escape this conversation.

"He told me that you were not what you look like" I tried to laugh but it seemed to get stuck in my throat.

"Oh yeah?" I could feel his gaze burning into the side of my face, and I could tell that some puzzle pieces were being put together.

"It makes a lot of sense, you never being in the showers, you having your own cell. The fact that the guards always seem to keep an extra eye out for you" He smirked at me, and my breathing seemed to speed up.

"Your a girl" He whispered. My eyes widened, I couldn't believe Haywire had told someone. I swallowed as my throat had suddenly become dry and I was finding it hard to breathe.

"Calm down. I'm not going to tell anyone. But I need you to do something for me" I obviously took that the wrong way.

"Ha, I don't think so" He furrowed his eyebrows until he got what his words implied.

"No, no. I don't mean that" I calmed down a bit.

"Then what do you want" I asked.

"I need you to get rid of Haywire" He stared into my eyes.

"And how exactly am I supposed to do that?" I looked over at Haywire seeing him looking at us. That made my mind up. "I'll think of something"

Michael smiled and nodded, then made his way over to Abruzzi.

I sighed, thinking about what I was gonna do. At least, I could be rid of him. I looked over at him again, to see that he was still sketching something. I got off the chair and walked over to the gate. I had an idea.

Next yard time, I didn't go outside. I had requested to see the Warden, and I was waiting for him to show up at my cell. Michael walked past me and nodded, Haywire followed him and looked at me again.

He was seriously creeping me out.

"Riley, you wanted to see me" I looked up to see the Warden in my doorway.

"You know you said I could tell you anything?" I added a little tremor to my voice as an extra boost.

"Yes" He looked concerned seeing my scared face.

"You know Haywire" He nodded. "He knows my secret, and he keeps looking at me funny. Follows me around" I bit my lip. It was lucky this was all true so I didn't have to make anything up.

He sighed, and ran his hand over his forehead.

"Well, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do until he does something that requires I move him" Well that didn't go to plan.

"Are you sure?" I asked. Michael probably wouldn't be very happy with this.

"I'm sorry, but it's against the rules otherwise" Yeah like a female inmate wasn't against the rules.

I nodded as I was escorted to the yard. As I got there I saw Scofield finishing up a conversation with his old cellie Sucre.

I walked over to them as Sucre hugged Scofield.

"Hey, man. The warden said he has to actually do something before they can move him" I looked over at Sucre and nodded. I was about to move when Scofield asked me to wait.

"I don't like the idea of you being in here" I was a little confused and I could see that Sucre was as well.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"In this prison, with the rapists and the murderers" He said looking deeply into my eyes.

"Does he know about me?" I said nodding towards Sucre.

"No, and no one else does either. I told Haywire to keep his mouth shut" I nodded feeling relieved. "We're escaping, and your coming with us" Sucre's mouth was hanging open, I would have laughed if not for the fact that Michael was looking at me so intensely.

"No, I... no" He narrowed his eyes at me.

"You are coming, if I have to drag you over the fence myself.

"And how do you know that I won't tell the Warden, or Bellick?" I lifted my chin up.

"Because, in case your forgetting I know something that could make your life uncomfortable" I sighed and looked down, he had a point.

"Okay then" And with that I walked off. I could hear Sucre's questions and without another thought I went over to the bleachers and looked up at the sky. Trying to pretend that I didn't know that Scofield was looking at me still, or that Haywire was still scribbling in his book.

Life just got a whole lot more complicated.

"All right, let's move on. Let's look alive" C.O yelled.

I was sketching in my book, a picture of Haywire. It looked so lifelike that I got creeped out by staring at it.

"Officer! I need an officer!" Scofield shouted. I looked on with interest.

C.O Pattinson and Lewis rushed past my cell, after that I heard lots of shouting. And then I saw Haywire struggling in the C.O's arms, I smirked to myself. Looks like he's going back to where he belonged.

And then Scofield came out of his cell, just above his eyebrow was a small cut. But it was bleeding freely down his face, he looked at me and smiled. I smiled back, but inside I was quite worried. Worried for what exactly, I didn't know.

A little while later I saw Bellick and Sucre walk past my cell. This must have been what they were talking about earlier. Bellick didn't look very happy as he pushed past Sucre into the cell.

"Hey man" Sucre greeted me, he looked so happy to be back in that I couldn't help but smile back.

"Good to see you back here again" I greeted back.

Me and Michael were both escorted into the infirmary. We were going to have the shots at the same time.

"It makes it easier for me, because you both have diabetes" I glanced over at Michael, I didn't know he had diabetes.

Doc left to talk with the nurse and Michael went over to the drain.

"Why are you squirting toothpaste down the drain?" I asked him, completely confused.

"It isn't toothpaste" Is all he got to say before Doc came back. You know what I don't even want to know.

"Good afternoon" She greeted both of us.

"Hey doc" I said, Michael just nodded.

"What happened?" She said noticing the band-aid on his eyebrow.

"That was me, I caught him when we were playing basketball" I smiled apologetically at him. Doc "ahh"ed and when her back was turned I saw Michael give me a grateful smile.

After we were done I hung back for a little bit, while Doc sent Michael out to wait in the hall.

"He knows my secret" I told her.

"Ahh, I see. Has he tried to -" I interrupted.

"No. No Michael's not like that, he would never. He's a good guy" I said, trying to make her believe.

"I see what's going on. You have a thing for Scofield" She looked positively gleeful.

"What no I don't! He's just not one of those guys who would take advantage you know?" Plus the fact the he wanted me to escape with him. That was also a good thing, God knows how much I want to get out of this place.

I was once again leaning on the bars of my cell, when I saw Sucre holding a mirror out of his. When he saw me looking he winked. I think they were doing something in there cell that they weren't supposed to. I smirked to myself. At least it wasn't as boring any more.

There was silence for a minute before Sucre starting singing in Spanish. There was immediate noise, everyone was shouting abuse of some sort. I knew this was what Sucre wanted, I was wondering why until I heard a slight bang from his cell.

AN: Another chapter done :) I am on a roll! Woo!